FREUD’S ARCHITECTURE OF HYSTERIA:  THEN AND NOWTHE PATHWAY TO FEMININE IDENTITY PRESENTERS: Susan N. Finkelstein, LCSW, Maria Teresa Flores, M.D. ,   Masha Mimran, Ph.D.
REGISTER  https://iptar.org/event/2-7-fnp-freuds-architecture-of-hysteria-then-and-nowthe-pathway-to-feminine-identity/
Friday Night Papers:  February 7 6-8pm: IPTAR, Conference Room
Freud’s hysteria and psychic architecture: démodé or still relevant today?  Then and now, hysterical features and its diagnosis have shifted, from the unearthing of primal Oedipal conflict to include contemporary Continue reading Freud’s Architecture of Hysteria at IPTAR

This presentation will focus on Whiteness as a condition one first acquires and then one has– a malignant, parasitic-like, condition. The condition is malignant because it spreads/metastasizes, targeting an ever-widening sphere of objects. It is parasitic in that it is contagious, passed on by other infected people.  Biologically “white” people have a particular susceptibility. to “Whiteness”. This susceptibility is grounded in pre-existing hierarchical Continue reading “On Having Whiteness” with Donald Moss at NYPSI

NYPSI EXTENSION COURSE:    January 16 – 30, 2020 Thursdays, 7:15 – 8:45 pm 3 classes  /  $115 Location: NYPSI (247 East 82nd Street, NYC)
To register, click here, visit nypsi.org or call 212-879-6900

NYPSI Extension Course: Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy of Cancer Patients
This course will provide the therapist with an introduction to psychoanalytic psychotherapy for cancer patients and their families. The first session will address the unique challenges for the therapist  of helping the patient face cancer at various stages of the disease. Death anxiety in Continue reading Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy of  Cancer Patients Norman Straker, M.D. at NYPSI